Spring is in the Air!
/Even though the Spring Equinox was right around the corner, it was still really bloody cold here in Northern Minnesota. Nevertheless, we plowed through a spring storytime because sometimes when all you've seen is gray all day (the skies are gray, the buildings are grey, the sidewalks are gray, the snow is now gray - aka snirt), you need a little hope that the grass will be green again and flowers will bloom again and the sun is still up there behind the endless curtains of clouds.
BOOKS:
We read Bear Wants More by Karma Wilson and When Spring Comes by Kevin Henkes.
These are both so cute. We counted up all of the food that Bear ate in Bear Wants More. This would have been fun with a flannel accompaniment of all the different things he ate. I like When Spring Comes though it's a little more abstract than Bear, it still has excellent pictures and beautiful text.
FINGERPLAY:
Our in-between-the-books fingerplay was probably my favorite part of this storytime. We did "Here is a bunny" that I borrowed from Storytime Katie.
Here is a bunny with ears so funny hold up index and middle fingers for ears
And here is his hole in the ground make a circle with other hand
At the first sound he hears,
he pricks up his ears extend two fingers straight
And hops in this hole in the ground fingers jump into the hole
SONG:
For our song and dance, we listened to "Walking with Spring" by the Okee Dokee Brothers. We got out our shakers and shook away to it too.
CRAFT:
I wanted to do something big and colorful for this so we made flowers out of paper scraps and paper plates. The original Pinterest post had the kids decorate their paper plates with bingo daubers and if I had had any or had had the time to find any I totally would have gone with that instead of markers. I also wanted big leaves for the stems but ran our of time to make them. Oh well, NEXT TIME. :D